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A Smart City is one where the management
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and the use of assets are enhanced
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by the use of technological solutions.
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Assets in a city are things like water systems,
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wastewater management systems, transportation.
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These assets properly intertwined with technologies bring in efficiency
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to how they are operated and how
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the information is transmitted back to the consumers.
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The ultimate goal of a Smart City is to bring transparency
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and make the lives of its people better and businesses more productive.
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A Smart City requires a multitude of sensors on the ground.
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All of the infrastructure assets have to be monitored and data collected.
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And this data then has to be transmitted through a common platform
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into an area that we call a command control centre.
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And this command control centre is really like the brain of the city,
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where all this data is managed and the data is then converted to information.
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So we need a lot of software, technologies and analytics
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to convert this data into information.
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Now once this data becomes information it has to be sent back to the consumers as information
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so that they have this knowledge of how to make decisions.
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You need systems, networks to transmit the data.
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Those come in the form of fiber optic networks, Wi-Fi networks,
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and eventually all this data has to be secured.
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So data security, data warehousing, data management
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are all part of this digital Smart City-concept.
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When customers have information, they can make informed decisions.
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And through these informed decisions people can have a better lifestyle.
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An example of that is that today, if I have to travel from point A to point B
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and if there is a traffic blockage somewhere,
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I can google and I can know that the traffic is blocked and I can take an alternative route.
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In the future, through data-analytics the same information
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would perhaps come to me ahead of time, without me googling.
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So even before I start my trip or my day I would know that this road is blocked
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and it will give me enough time to plan an alternate route
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or change the meeting venue or change the time and date of the meeting.
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So this is how it is going to make my life easier. It will make everyone’s life easy.
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These are all small examples of how the future of smart concepts
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will evolve to make both the businesses’ and the public’s lives easier and happier.